RISKY TRAIN JOURNEY
MAN ON CARRIAGE ROOF
100 MILES ON COLD. NIGHT. NO MONEY TO BUY TICKET '! ' K' - •_ rjj [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] ' *7jj TE AWAMUTU, Thursday When the limited express reached To Awamutu at 10 o'clock last night the police arrested Andrew McPhersoo, a middle-aged man, who had travelled/'' from Auckland b'ing on the top of a carriage. Accused was charged in the Police ■ Court to-day with vagrarcy. Mcpherson said he wanted to return • to Taumarunui, where he hoped to - secure work. Having no money for hia fare, he climbed on to the top of a carriage and travelled 100 miles in the cold night air. He offered to walk the - other 75 miles to Taumarunui if not sent to gaol. Accused was convicted and ordered M to come up for sentence if called upon. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21597, 15 September 1933, Page 10
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